The determinants of export behaviour in UK service firms

Adrian Gourlay, Jonathan Seaton and Joy Suppakitjarak

The Service Industries Journal, 2005, vol. 25, issue 7, 879-889

Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of export behaviour for a panel of UK service industry firms from 1988 to 2001. Export behaviour is modelled in a dual manner: as both the decision to export and the intensity of exporting. The results indicate that firm size, research intensity, average director's pay and the variance of the sterling--dollar exchange rate all increase the probability of becoming an exporter. In addition, the results indicate that the process underlying a firm's decision to export is a separate one from that determining export intensity, implying that the two decisions should be modelled separately.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/02642060500134154

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